The problem is my kitchen is too cold, my bathroom is too cold, I'm hiding under a kotatsu, I mean hell I don't eat. I eat breakfast at work, I don't pack a lunch, when I get home I'm hungry and I don't go in the kitchen to cook because it's way too cold in there to prepare food for cooking. I actually wear the wool biking gear in my apartment o_O

No breakfast means no biking, not to mention I can't wake up in the morning because I'm eating two small meals a day now. :twitch:

Cold poisoning overrules starvation. So now I don't bike commute, primarily because I sleep a lot from not eating. f*#* Oh well, at least I can annoy the wrong-way riders by honking my horn at them; I need something louder than a bike bell on my bike.

Car sucks. I mean it's fun but I'd rather be driving a car on a race track. For the open road I want an ebike or a motorcycle.. or both. I shouldn't have to take this much of a visibility penalty just because I don't feel like pedaling for 45 minutes on an empty stomach through the biting cold

Can only run a space heater in one room; I'm within 400 watts of throwing the breaker here, evidenced by the breaker throwing if I don't disable the space heater before activating the 400W spin dryer.

Running central heating above 50 degrees turns my heating bill from $60/mo to $250/mo because the apartment isn't insulated (the outside facing wall of my bedroom is the same temperature as the brick wall on the outside... the hallway-facing interior walls are close, too, because there's airflow through the empty space inside them).

Wear more clothes. Turn on the oven and cook to warm it up.
Can't bike without breakfast? Cuppa joe and head out the door every morning. no problem
I don't understand how cold would stop anyone from eating? I sleep in a tent and sit on a little platform in a tree dawn/dusk in the Northwoods for 8 days of deer hunting - never had a problem eating.
I don't pay $250/month for a older 3 BR ranch in WI in the dead of winter. I haven't even turned my furnace on yet. I tell the kids to put a sweater on.
Maybe it's time to look for a different living space to occupy.

One way to approach the indoor cold is a one-piece insulated suit. I have a snowmobile suit I wear indoors when needed. It beats the heck out of layering. Zippers all the way up all over for easy in & out, even with boots on.

MTFU
When I was a student we had a really cold snap and the toilet bowl froze, my toothbrush froze, the water pipes froze, so we melted snow from the garden. It was so cold, I ate one of my flatmates.
You need to have a big, hot breakfast, a bowl of porridge oats or museli and hot milk with plenty of honey or syrup. At night you need to go to sleep on a full belly to stay warm.

MTFU
When I was a student we had a really cold snap and the toilet bowl froze, my toothbrush froze, the water pipes froze, so we melted snow from the garden. It was so cold, I ate one of my flatmates.
You need to have a big, hot breakfast, a bowl of porridge oats or museli and hot milk with plenty of honey or syrup. At night you need to go to sleep on a full belly to stay warm.

I can only say that at one point, my wife and I had a shotgun shack that we were renovating for one of the salesmen at the local paper I was on the copy desk of back in the early 2000s. It had zero insulation, 2 windows were broken and it had zero heat.

You'd think that wouldn't matter in Central Texas until you had to sit through a winter where you had to have the gas stove on, with sheets covering all the doorways other than the bedroom and the kitchen. We took showers without a waterheater that winter and survived. Hell, I still ran a marathon that year - and trained for it to keep warm.

The problem is my kitchen is too cold, my bathroom is too cold, I'm hiding under a kotatsu, I mean hell I don't eat. I eat breakfast at work, I don't pack a lunch, when I get home I'm hungry and I don't go in the kitchen to cook because it's way too cold in there to prepare food for cooking. I actually wear the wool biking gear in my apartment o_O

No breakfast means no biking, not to mention I can't wake up in the morning because I'm eating two small meals a day now. :twitch:

Cold poisoning overrules starvation. So now I don't bike commute, primarily because I sleep a lot from not eating. f*#* Oh well, at least I can annoy the wrong-way riders by honking my horn at them; I need something louder than a bike bell on my bike.

Car sucks. I mean it's fun but I'd rather be driving a car on a race track. For the open road I want an ebike or a motorcycle.. or both. I shouldn't have to take this much of a visibility penalty just because I don't feel like pedaling for 45 minutes on an empty stomach through the biting cold

Bake some lasagna.

Will kill two birds with one stone.

Wake up a little earlier and have a hot breakfast... oatmeal kicks some serious butt.